 | | | Satellite server | Satellite server 2005-08-25 - By Brian Long
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Shaw, Marco wrote:
> (Sorry if the formatting is screwed.)
>
> A few things...
>
> For anyone out there interested in sharing their experiences, we're
> looking at installing Satellite server 3.7. Any comments on the
> following?
>
We've skipped satellite and we support over 4,000 Linux hosts using yum
(yes, for RHEL 3 and 4). We use a patched version of up2date on a
single host to download all the channels we need, no matter the RHEL
release or architecture. See this bugzilla for details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162210
> 1. Stand-alone database versus embedded database. To have full control
> over the DB, I'm leaning towards embedded, but leaning towards SA for
> disaster recovery. We will have a small deployment, so it may be
> efficient to just do a text dump of the embedded Oracle database and
> back that up.
> It would have to be pretty small as our backup network isn't high speed.
> It could also be a cold backup in the early morning hours.
>
If you decide to implement RHN, I agree with the other post that said to
use Red Hat Professional Services to install it. This will greatly
reduce your frustrations and allow you to do your normal job while they
get it up and running.
>
> 2. Looks like our security group will not allow some of the firewall
> rules we require for the server itself. We may be getting a corporate
> patch
> management solution (www.patchlink.com) for all OSs. Has anyone ever
> tried somehow integrating Satellite server with another patch management
> solution?
>
As the other post said, any firewall should allow outgoing HTTPS. If
they don't, you're just out of luck.
/Brian/
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